1943 in Mandatory Palestine

Events in the year 1943 in the British Mandate of Palestine.

1943 in the British Mandate of Palestine
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See also: 1943 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1943

Incumbents

• High Commissioner – Sir Harold MacMichael
• Emir of Transjordan – Abdullah I bin al-Hussein
• Prime Minister of Transjordan – Tawfik Abu al-Huda

Events

• 18 February - World War II: The Polish Anders Army arrived in Palestine, where many Polish Jews, including Menachem Begin, desert to work on establishing a Jewish state in Palestine. This becomes known as the 'Anders Aliyah'.
• 12 May: The founding of the kibbutz Gvulot.
• 1-20 November: Lehi members flee from the Latrun Detention Camp through a 70 meter long tunnel.
• December: The founding of the kibbutz Yad Mordechai.

Notable births

• 2 January – Daniel Pe'er, Israeli television host and newsreader (died 2017)
• 1 March – Benny Begin, Israeli geologist and politician
• 9 April – Uri Gil, Israeli Air Force officer
• 30 April – Ze'ev Boim, Israeli politician and Knesset member (died 2011)
• 30 April – Nechemya Cohen, Israeli army officer, the most decorated soldier in the history of the IDF (died 1967)
• 7 May – Herzl Bodinger, Israeli Air Force commander
• 18 May – Gershon Shefa, Israeli Olympic swimmer
• 19 May – Yosef Ahimeir, Israeli politician and journalist
• 2 June – Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, Israeli rabbi, chief rabbi of Kfar Chabad (died 2015)
• 8 June – Uri Davis, Israeli academic and anti-Zionist political activist
• 12 June – Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Israeli psychology professor
• 2 August – Uzi Landau, Israeli politician
• 5 August – Uri Sagi, Israeli general
• 18 September – Issak Tavior, Israeli pianist, composer, and conductor
• 25 September – Yoav Gelber, Israeli historian
• 7 October – Yoram Globus, Israeli film producer and cinema owner
• 26 October – Ron Ben-Yishai, Israeli journalist
• 8 November – Boaz Davidson, Israeli film director, producer, and screenwriter
• 22 November – Naomi Blumenthal, Israeli politician
• 12 December – Hanan Porat, former Israeli politician (died 2011)
• 18 December – Hanoch Levin, Israeli playwright, theater director, author and poet (died 1999)
• Full date unknown
  • Awad Saud Awad, Palestinian writer and journalist
  • Dina Porat, Israeli historian
  • Ghassan Shakaa, Palestinian mayor
  • Khalil Suleiman, Palestinian doctor, head of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) Emergency Medical Service (died 2002)
  • Mubarak Awad, Palestinian Arab, Arab-American psychologist and political activist
  • Nabil Anani, Palestinian artist
  • Tanya Reinhart, Israeli linguist and peace activist (died 2007)
  • Yekutiel Gershoni, Israeli historian and paralympic champion

Notable deaths

• 1 January – Arthur Ruppin (born 1876), German-born Zionist Palestinian Jewish leader
• 14 October – Shaul Tchernichovsky (born 1875), Russian-born Palestinian Jewish Hebrew poet